“For music, Stalin played the role in the 20th century that the market plays today”
The premiere of his opera Lady Macbeth de Mtsensk in 1934 in Leningrad, with the presence of Stalin among the public, entailed a decisive before and after in the composer’s life Dimitri Shostakóvich (1906-1975). The next day, the newspaper Pravda published a harsh criticism entitled Chaos instead of musicattributed to Stalin himself, in which Shostakovich … Read more